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[Anonymous No.19209141]

*inserts himself in heaven despite having committed multiple hell-worthy sins*

[Anonymous No.19209159]

he was a tertiary of St-Francis, he was very pious

[Anonymous No.19209165]

>>19209141
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[Anonymous No.19209198]

authors are gods

[Anonymous No.19209204]

>>19209141
His ancestors are smiling upon him, can you say the same anon?

[Anonymous No.19209210]

Same as everyone on this board desu.

[Anonymous No.19209213]

>>19209141
The act of composing Divina Commedia absolves him of all sins.

[Anonymous No.19209248]

>>19209141
He was a Ghibelline ofc he goes to heaven

[Anonymous No.19209257]

>>19209141
His sins are magnified in Hell, hence his becoming more aggressive as the Inferno continues. However, he is not punished for his sins in Hell because he is not dead in a state of sun. He is then sent through Purgatory, but his sins actually are stripped from his soul as he ascends. Weight is a common symbol of sin in Christianity, and it is used in the Divine Comedy. Dante becomes denser and heavier as he descends into Hell (this was before the theory of gravitation, so humans didn’t actually know we would be lighter in space and heavier in the center of the earth), and as he ascends the Purgatorial mountain he gets lighter and the climb gets easier. When he is in the Garden of Eden, his sins have been stripped from his soul. Virgil disappears because, as an inhabitant of Hell, his sins could not be stripped from his soul and he could not enter Heaven.
But the important thing is this, and I only summarize the Divine Comedy to aid in your understanding of my answer to your OP: Dante’s state is understood to be temporary, a living man allowed to see the afterlife. Dante has been stripped of all his sins, so there is nothing preventing him from reaching the highest Heaven. You should not confuse this narrative with prelest, Dante is not saying he deserves to go to Heaven, nor is he saying he’ll necessarily go to Heaven when he dies. He is a tourist, who has been placed in a state of perfect grace for a limited time to allow him to experience the afterlife

[Anonymous No.19209263]

>>19209141
His sins are magnified in Hell, hence his becoming more aggressive as the Inferno continues. However, he is not punished for his sins in Hell because he is not dead in a state of sin. He is then sent through Purgatory, but his sins actually are stripped from his soul as he ascends. Weight is a common symbol of sin in Christianity, and it is used in the Divine Comedy. Dante becomes denser and heavier as he descends into Hell (this was before the theory of gravitation, so humans didn’t actually know we would be lighter in space and heavier in the center of the earth), and as he ascends the Purgatorial mountain he gets lighter and the climb gets easier. When he is in the Garden of Eden, his sins have been stripped from his soul. Virgil disappears because, as an inhabitant of Hell, his sins could not be stripped from his soul and he could not enter Heaven.
But the important thing is this, and I only summarize the Divine Comedy to aid in your understanding of my answer to your OP: Dante’s state is understood to be temporary, a living man allowed to see the afterlife. Dante has been stripped of all his sins, so there is nothing preventing him from reaching the highest Heaven. You should not confuse this narrative with prelest, Dante is not saying he deserves to go to Heaven, nor is he saying he’ll necessarily go to Heaven when he dies. He is a tourist, who has been placed in a state of perfect grace for a limited time to allow him to experience the afterlife

[Anonymous No.19209264]

He was only able to do so because he went through hell and purgatory first. Doing so allowed him to to understand the nature of god’s plan and in a sense atone for his mistakes. Don’t you remember all the parts where Virgil told him off for fainting in Inferno. What did you think that was about?

[Anonymous No.19209951]

>>19209141
He is being grilled at the moment. So, no need to worry about the cracker.

[Anonymous No.19210033]

>>19209141
The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force

[Anonymous No.19210055]

>>19209141
He explicitly puts himself in purgatory among those who are arrogant, wtf are you on about.

[Anonymous No.19210135]

>>19209141
Like what?

[Anonymous No.19210141]

>>19210055
OP hasn’t actually read the book, he’s just guessing

[Anonymous No.19210145]

Just pray those sins away

[Anonymous No.19210164]

>>19209141
but he was just visiting

[Anonymous No.19210724]

>>19210164
See >>19210141

[Anonymous No.19211068]

>>19209213
It was actually just la comedia, and divine got slapped on by a critic

[Anonymous No.19211071]

>okay

[Anonymous No.19211088]

>Self insert
>Places himself in the highest level of heaven
Mary Sue

[Anonymous No.19211099]

salvation is through faith, not deeds

[Anonymous No.19211118]

>writes one of the best literary pieces ever in the history of humanity
>the bitch that inspired it marries a rich guy
the OG simp

[Anonymous No.19212657]

He was an initiate, religious commoners wouldn't understand.

[Anonymous No.19213161]

>>19209141

There is no such thing as a hell-worthy sin, for multiple reasons. First of all, sin is that which is contrary to the will of dog, and as there is no dog, there is no such thing as sin, strictly speaking-there are only things disagreeable to humans and other really existing subjects, which may be morally construed, but which never rise to the metaphysical level of sin, as they are always physical in nature and entail the manifest absence of dog. Second, and equally as obviously, it is impossible for a finite subject to deserve hell, which entails eternal torment. Or otherwise suppose that such an execrable dog did in fact exist. Then the only morally correct thing to do would be to reject that dog, and bask in moral superiority in hell.

I continue to be correctly ashamed of my fellow humans for their unwarranted belief in a tyrant dog.